Abstract
This article presents the results of the 1998-99 National Family Health Survey-2 conducted among a sample of respondents in India whose population crossed the 1 billion mark in May 2000. The survey provides data on castes tribes or classes the government has designated as socially and economically deserving of protection. Information is given on the topics of marriage fertility and fertility preferences contraceptive knowledge and use maternal and child health sexual and reproductive health and domestic violence. A notable finding is that women in India can expect to have nearly three births if existing rates of fertility continue. However if women had only wanted births the total fertility rate would drop by 25% to replacement level (2.1 lifetime births). Evidence indicates that while nearly half of currently married women 15-49 years old practice contraception. Female sterilization predominates accounting for 71% of all use.
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